Sharing this announcement from the #SpinozaHavurah for anyone interested in #Humanistic takes on traditional #Jewish holidays:

Join us on Saturday May 25th at 10:00 am EDT/2:00 pm UTC/3:00 pm BST for a Lag B’Omer Service. Please register for this service on Zoom.

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vduiprzssGNzQyOzI04nJ8poS4TWhL1oH

Celebrate Lag Ba'Omer with us in a unique and spiritually enriching way. This special day marks the 33rd step in the Omer's 49-day journey, resonating with the theme of Hod within Hod - the essence of humility and splendor.

What to Bring: We invite you to participate actively by bringing a hard-boiled egg, marker pen, and candles. The eggs will serve as vessels for your personal wishes , symbolizing potential and new beginnings. The candles will represent the light of wisdom and revelation, honouring the teachings of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, whose insights have helped to illuminate our paths through Judaism.

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#Mazeldon #LagBOmer #Omer #CountingTheOmer #Judaism #HumanisticJudaism

gevurah b'netzach, for my mishpocha who are counting with me… Thank you so much for supporting my work!
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The Omer is counted every nightfall starting the 2nd night of Passover until the night before Shavuot (marking when we received the Torah). This yearly cycle of counting lasts 49 days and every nightfall has its own opportunity for reflection. Each of the 7 weeks has its own focus and each of the 7 days within each week has its own focus within that focus. During Sefirat Ha'Omer, we are invited on a mystical journey, a journey that spirals us deeper and deeper into discovering what exists within our psyches and souls…

text reads:

gevurah b'netzach (discernment and strength within endurance)

During childbirth, I needed a kind of endurance that I’d never needed before. 

What brought me the ability to keep going was the discernment 

in knowing what to focus my energy and attention on.

The intensity of the moment brought me into a sort of hyperfocus of my surroundings,

and in every milli-second when I felt the pain becoming unbearable again 

I shifted focus onto a new object and named it in my mind…

“yellow chair… blue curtain… white ceiling”

This gave me the inner strength to keep going a moment longer.

And because I went through that I have a feeling like I can go through anything.

When I become overwhelmed, I can notice the objects in the room I’m in, 

and it snaps me back into remembering who I am and what I’m capable of.

#countingtheomer #gevurah #netzach #kabbalah #sefirot #jewish

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gevurah of gevurah, for my mishpocha who are counting with me… Thank you so much for supporting my work!
patreon.com/kimchicuddles

The Omer is counted every nightfall starting the 2nd night of Passover until the night before Shavuot (marking when we received the Torah). This yearly cycle of counting lasts 49 days and every nightfall has its own opportunity for reflection. Each of the 7 weeks has its own focus and each of the 7 days within each week has its own focus within that focus. During Sefirat Ha'Omer, we are invited on a mystical journey, a journey that spirals us deeper and deeper into discovering what exists within our psyches and souls…

text reads:

Tonight begins the focus of gevurah within gevurah itself.

Gevurah is often translated as strength and discernment, and I associate it with ongoing practice, like a dedicated student of a martial art.

When I first started jiu jitsu, what kept me going every day was telling myself 
“I’m here to practice patience and precision”.

I know I’ll never actually reach perfection, 

and some days will feel like I didn’t even make any improvement.

But having the discipline to keep trying even when I’m the worst one in the class

gives me a strength and resilience that I can bring into every other part of my life.

It’s so easy to fall out of practice and back into easier (though less nourishing) habits,

and it’s so easy to give up when you’ve let yourself fall behind…

May I have the strength and discernment to continue practicing the things that strengthen my discernment.

#countingtheomer #gevurah #bjj #jiujitsu #kabbalah #strength

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